Nehemiah 5:8
5:8 I said to them, “To the extent possible we have bought back our fellow Jews 1 who had been sold to the Gentiles. But now you yourselves want to sell your own countrymen, 2 so that we can then buy them back!” They were utterly silent, and could find nothing to say.
Nehemiah 8:10
8:10 He said to them, “Go and eat delicacies and drink sweet drinks and send portions to those for whom nothing is prepared. For this day is holy to our Lord. 3 Do not grieve, for the joy of the LORD is your strength.”
Nehemiah 9:5
9:5 The Levites – Jeshua, Kadmiel, Bani, Hashabneiah, Sherebiah, Hodiah, Shebaniah, and Pethahiah – said, “Stand up and bless the LORD your God!” “May you be blessed, O LORD our God, from age to age. 4 May your glorious name 5 be blessed; may it be lifted up above all blessing and praise.
Nehemiah 10:29
10:29 hereby participate with their colleagues the town leaders 6 and enter into a curse and an oath 7 to adhere to 8 the law of God which was given through Moses the servant of God, and to obey 9 carefully all the commandments of the LORD our Lord, 10 along with his ordinances and his statutes.
Nehemiah 10:33
10:33 for the loaves of presentation and for the regular grain offerings and regular burnt offerings, for the Sabbaths, for the new moons, for the appointed meetings, for the holy offerings, for the sin offerings to make atonement for Israel, and for all the work of the temple of our God.
Nehemiah 10:38-39
10:38 A priest of Aaron’s line 11 will be with the Levites when the Levites collect the tithes, and the Levites will bring up a tenth of the tithes to the temple of our God, to the storerooms of the treasury.
10:39 The Israelites and the Levites will bring the contribution of the grain, the new wine, and the olive oil to the storerooms where the utensils of the sanctuary are kept, and where the priests who minister stay, along with the gatekeepers and the singers. We will not neglect the temple of our God.”
1 tn Heb “our brothers, the Jews.”
2 tn Heb “your brothers.”
3 tn The Hebrew term translated “Lord” here is אֲדֹנָי (’adonay).
4 tc The MT reads here only “from age to age,” without the preceding words “May you be blessed, O LORD our God” which are included in the present translation. But apparently something has dropped out of the text. This phrase occurs elsewhere in the OT as a description of the Lord (see Ps 41:13; 106:48), and it seems best to understand it here in that light. The LXX adds “And Ezra said” at the beginning of v. 6 as a transition: “And Ezra said, ‘You alone are the LORD.” Without this addition (which is not included by most modern English translations) the speakers of vv. 9:5b-10:1 continue to be the Levites of v. 5a.
5 tn Heb “the name of your glory.”
6 tn Heb “the nobles.”
7 tn The expression “a curse and an oath” may be a hendiadys, meaning “an oath with penalties.”
8 tn Heb “to walk in.”
9 tn Heb “keep.” See the note on the word “obey” in Neh 1:5.
10 tn The Hebrew term translated “Lord” here is אֲדֹנָי (’adonay).
11 tn Heb “And the priest the son of Aaron.”